Islamic Science Quotes

“If learning the truth is a scientific's goal, then he must make himself the enemy of all that he reads”
― Alhazen, The Optics of Ibn Al-Haytham: On Direct Vision Books 1-3

“Ibn al-Rawandi (...) wrote that a god who inflicts illness upon his subjects cannot be counted as one who treats them wisely, “nor can he be said to be looking after them or to be compassionate toward them. The same is true concerning he who inflicts upon them poverty and misery. Also, who punishes the disobedient by eternal fire is a fool.”
― Theo Alistair

“From my earliest works written in the 1950s and 1960s, I have claimed that there is such a thing as Islamic science with a twelve-hundred-year tradition of its own and that this science is Islamic not only because it was cultivated by Muslims, but because it is based on a worldview and a cosmology rooted in the Islamic revelation.”
― Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islam in the Modern World: Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition

“With breathtaking boldness, they laid claim to various bizarre discoveries which ranged from calculating the speed of heaven using Einstein's Theory of Relativity, to finding the chemical composition of jinns, and even to the extraction of energy from these fiery divine creatures so that Pakistan's energy problems could be solved.”
― Pervez Hoodbhoy, Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality

“An Islamic scientist describes his conception of how the universe began and will end. making an analogy with the passage of electricity in a wire. At the beginning there was disorder in the World of Spirits, just as electrons are disordered in a conductor. Then .... And finally. the soul is radiated into the Final World just like an electron radiates off electromagnetic waves.”
― Pervez Hoodbhoy, Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality

“The new Islamic science, like Creationism in the West, is a reaction against modern science. It is not a new direction of science.”
― Pervez Hoodbhoy, Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality